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Q. M. YOUNGS.

REIN HOLDER. No. 314,409.

Patented Mar. 24, 1885.

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QUINTE-N M. YOUNGS, OF UTICA, NEV YORK.

REIN=HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,409, dated March 24, 1885. Application filed August 18, 1584v (No mode.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concer/2,:

Beit known that I, QUINTEN M. YoUNGs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Utica, in the county ofOneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rein Holders, of

which the following is a specification, refervinafter more fully lar view with the frame reversed.

ence being had therein to drawings.

My invention pertains to an improvement in rein-fasteners, which mayalso be employed as a trace or tug fastener; and it consists in the peculiar construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts, substantially as hereshown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of myinvention as applied for one of its uses as a rein-fastener. Fig. 2 is a simi- Fig. 3 is a detached perspective of the fastening with a tongue applied tothe eccentric. Fig. 4 is a side View of thesamewith the tongue applied to the frame, and Figs. 5 and 6 are detail views.

In carrying out my invention I employ a frame, A, with curved side bars, and extend short arms a from the concaved sides of said side bars, and connect these arms at their lower ends by a round bar, b, cast integral with arms a, upon which I eccentrically pivot a recessed roll, B, whose face or bearing-snrface may be sexrated or roughened to render its bite upon the strap more effective. The recessed roll B has tongue B3, and also formed therein the longitudinal recess B, and is provided with lips Bwhich are bent down over the inserted bar b, thus securely inclosing bar b, and as the recess B projects but a short distance into the recessed roll an eccentric in connection with plate d is thus formed.

Instead of having the tongue upon either the frame or eccentric, it may be cast upon the accompanying the plate d, to project through the strap fastened to said plate, and to enter a coincident aperture of the rein-line or tug-strap. NV ith the tongue on the plate d it wi-ll be out of the way in passing the rein line or strap through the buckle, said tongue being normally on the lower side of the plate, leavingan unobstructed passage-way, whenthe frame is reversed to overhang the strap to which the -plate d is fastened to permit the insertion and passage of said rein-line or tug-strap.

Either the eccentric or cross-bar of the frame may have a tongue to enter holes previously formed in the strap. The eccentric is cast integral with plate d, which is provided with orifices to admit the ready fastening by riveting of the plate between lapping portions of the hand-reinloop C.

To apply the fastening, theplate d of the eccentric being riveted or fastened .between the lapping portions of the hand-rein loop, the frame A is reversed or swung up over the rein-loop, and the free end ofthe rein-line is' passcd,which can be done straightly, between said frame and the back of the eccentric, its face being normally presented downward. With the rein-'line thus inserted the frame is returned to its previousnormal position,when the inserted end of the rein line or strap will be carried down under the hand-loop or other strap, and that the face of the eccentric will be wedged against said rein-line intermediatel y ol" the end and side bars of thesaid frame, thus firmly clamping or connecting the hand-loop to the rein-line, ready for use.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A rein-holder consisting of the curved frame A, having arms aand barb integral therewith, recessed roll B, having tongue B", recess B, and lips B2, and plate d, having riveted there-l to the rein-loop C, substantially as shown and described.

ln testimony whereof I afix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN It. BUCHER, ANNIE B. Boor-IER. 

